The American Messenger Company is founded on August 28, 1907. Mail was delivered via a Ford Model T. The company would further grow and adopt the name we recognize today as United Parcel Service (UPS).

Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. He conceptualizes the Kinetoscope which William K. L. Dickson used to make the film shown above. It’s titled Fred Ott’s Sneeze and is the first motion picture to be copy-written in the United States.